ANKA: A Decentralized Blockchain-based Energy Marketplace for Battery-powered Devices
Abstract: For the purpose of enabling, democratizing, and reducing the fees of peer-to-peer energy trading for battery-powered devices, we propose ANKA as a fully decentralized energy marketplace for peers with battery-powered devices. ANKA utilizes state-of-the-art technologies, namely blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized applications. Within this marketplace, users who possess surplus energy actively offer their excess energy for trading. Concurrently, consumers can readily explore the energy options available and make purchases according to their individual preferences while taking into consideration the location of the offered energy and voltage compatibility. In addition, we provide a comparison between a centralized traditional market and our proposed solution, identifying that the cost of deploying and operating ANKA is less than the centralized approach. We also position ANKA in comparison to the recent blockchain-based decentralized energy marketplaces by considering the metrics of blockchain type, scope, trading entities and the presence of third parties.
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